Key-holder



Patented Uct. 25, i898.

A. FAIR.

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UNITED STATES ALPIIARETTA FAIR, OF ASHTON, NEBRASKA.

KEY-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0.613,029, dated October 25;. 159B.

Application illed January 27, 189t.` Serial No. 668,237. (No modal-l To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHARETTA FAIR, residing at Ashton, in the county of Sherman and State of Nebraska, have invented anew and useful Key-Holder, of which the following is a specification. l My invention relates to key-holders, and more especially to that class of devices adapted to be secured to the clothing of the user and intended to supporta key chain or guard.

The object of my inventionvis to provide a device of this class which may be readily attached to the clothing ofthe user and which. shall be provided with means for attaching both ends of the key-chain or readily releasinf,r either end at will.

si; invention consists in the improved con struction, arrangement, and combination et" parts hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically pointed out in the appended claim. l

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention most nearly) apper- I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referencc being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specificationg, in whicli- Figure l is a perspective View of a. keyholder constructed in accordance with myinvvention, the inner end of the key-chain .being E engaged in one of the snap'hooks and the keyfring in the other. Fig. 2 is a rear eleva- -tion of the metal plate for attachment to the clothing. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail perspective view ofV a portion of the inside of the plate and the shield for the pin-point attached thereto. Fig. 4 is a detail view, in side elevation, partly in section, of the keyring. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional View through that part of the device illustrated in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the pinpoint shield detached. Fig. 7 is a detail View of the blank from which the pin-point shield is made.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts wherever they occur in the various figures of the drawings.` y Referring to the drawings by letters,A indicates a plate of sheet metal of any suitable size, the edges and ends being preferably rounded to prevent injury to the clothing of the wearer. This plate is provided with two holes or openings B and O near its ends adjacent its lower edge. In these holes are secured snap-hooks, (marked D and E.)

Fis a key-chain of any suitable length, material, and design, or it may be a key-guard of silk or other suitable material. One end of this key-guard is adapted to be engaged in "the snap-hook D, while the other end is provided with the key-ring G, of 'any ordinary construction, upon which to hang keys, as at ll. lVhen it is not desired to use the keys, the key-ring G is engaged in the snap-hook E, as is shown in Fig. 1, but when necessity arisesfor the use of the keysit may be readily disengaged from the snap-hook, so that the full length of the chain may be utilized in handling the keys.

I l indicate lugs soldered to or otherwise erected upon the rear face of the metal plate A, between which the end J of the pin K is pivotally secured.

L indicates the shield for the point of the pin K. This shield is constructed of a blank of sheet metal, as at M in Fig. 7, T-shapedand of any suitable size or qualitypf metal, by bending over the wings N on each side of the blank and nally bending the wing O over, as' most clearly shown in Fig. 6. To secure the shield L to the rear face of the metal plate, the wing O is soldered thereto, leaving the main body-of the blank at a distance from and substantially parallel with the plate and the bent Wings N'about midway between the main body of the blank and the plate itself, with an opening between the edges through which the pin may be passed. After the pin has been passed through the material of the clothing its point is slipped either upward or downward between one of the wings N and the wing O until the opening between the wings N is reached, when the point is passed between the edges of these wings and allowed to assume a position between either of the wings and the mainbody of the shield.

' From the foregoing description the construction of myvinvention will be readily understood. It willbe obvious that the device will be very handy and useful, especially for ladies wearing dresses without pockets. The

5 not in use, thus preventing its dangling about and hooking into furniture, curtains, dsc. At the same time the provision of the snap-hooks renders ,it easy to free the key-ring, so that the full length of the chain is available in xo manipulating the keys.

The whole device is made with smoth edges and without sharp corners to catch in the clot-hing, and the peculiar construction of the pin-point shieldrendersits action easy, sure,

x5' and reliable.

While I have illustrated and described the best means for carrying out my invention, I do not wish to be understood as restricting myself to the exact construction shown, but

so hold that any slight changes, such as might suggest themselves to the ordinary mechanic,

would properly fall withimthe limit and scopo of my invention. v v

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A key-holder, comprising in its construction a metal plate, provided with two holes adjacent its lower edge and near its ends, two lugs secured to its rear face, a pin pivoted between said lugs, a pin-point shield secured to the rear face, a snap-hook secured in each of the holes iu theplate, and a key chain o1" guard, having at its outer end a key-ring, the

inner end of the key chain o1- guard beingl attached in one of the snap-hooks, and the keyring being adapted to be attached in the other snap-hook, substantially as described.

l ALPHARETTA FAIR. Witnesses:

H. SMELSER, W. M. SMELSER. 

